Pre-Program Materials
We take our responsibility to you very seriously. Our goal is to maximize your investment. To support you in doing this, please review the following.
- Merci is 5′1″ and an animated speaker who uses her whole body in her program. Please do NOT put her behind a lectern or head table. If the head table is on a riser or a stage, pull it back from the edge to allow space for Merci to stand and move in front of it.
- Please have a lavaliere microphone available.
- Please read Merci’s introduction, or keep it fairly close to the way it is written.
- Try to have the group in a fun mood before introducing your speaker. Sad announcements or moments of silence for a recently departed friend are appropriate, but not just before introducing the speaker.
- Merci enjoys and tries to meet as many members of her audience as possible. She will attend your social events, if requested, but please do not make arrangements to keep her out late at night…she needs her beauty sleep.
- To get more and maximize your investment in Merci, please keep in mind that an extended cocktail party is not a good start for your audience or any speaker.
- Awards or extended announcements — either consider having your speaker first, or give the audience a stretch break for a couple of minutes before introducing the speaker.
- Please consider: It is difficult to build intimacy and rapport if: the audience is not very close to each other or to the speaker or if your audience is still eating.
- If the door at the back of the room closes loudly, please have a door stop so that the door will not be a distraction.
- The recommended room set up for a speaking engagement is one that allows participants to move at their table or chair…this is a lively presentation.
- SEATING: If the audience’s chairs are chevroned rather than straight rows, facing the stage will be more comfortable.
- The eye follows movement, not sound; if photos are to be taken, please do not take them during the first fifteen minutes of the presentation. It will be too much of a distraction for your audience and speaker. (It is possible to take “posed action” shots during the break.)
We hope this will help you. We want to present a first-class program.
Merci is happy to go over this on the phone if you prefer. Call her at 518-229-4403.
It is my intention to give you the BEST presentation ever! I will share my passion and enthusiasm with your organization through my knowledge, insight & motivation!
Please help me to create a dynamic presentation by sharing information about your organization so that I may customize this presentation especially for you.
These questions are designed to help me to prepare a program specifically suited to the needs of your group. Please take a moment to answer all the questions fully and return the form to my office at your earliest convenience.
If there is anything else you feel that would help with background information on your corporation please forward it to me. Example: Newsletters, trade periodicals, marketing materials, etc.
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Preferred Intro
Merci Miglino is well qualified to help you take the next step to accomplish what you want in your professional and personal life.
Merci was educated as a teacher and worked as a journalist, paralegal, communications director and campaign manager.
She has also been on the front lines of the retail, hospitality and advertising industries.
Armed with this background Merci is a noted speaker, trainer and career coach and has written a book, From Doormat to Diva© Taking Center Stage in your life.
This woman knows success, personally and professionally, and she knows how to help you find it too.
Please give a warm welcome to New York’s most vocal Diva, Merci Miglino!
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